Making a Village: Initiation, The Mid-Wife of Human Being ~ Film Screening & Daylong Teaching

March 14, 2014 @ 6:30 pm - March 15, 2014 @ 3:30 pm

Event Navigation

Griefwalker presentation March 14 and daylong teaching March 15
A Premiere in Berkeley, California hosted by The Child Therapy Institute organized by Wendy and Brian Lukas

March 14, 2014 – (7:00pm-10pm)
Public Film Screening of Griefwalker & Talk led by Stephen JenkinsonGriefwalker is a National Film Board of Canada feature documentary film. It is a lyrical, poetic portrait of Stephen’s work with dying people. Filmed over a twelve year period, Griefwalker shows Jenkinson in teaching sessions with doctors and nurses, in counselling sessions with dying people and their families, and in meditative and often frank exchanges with the film’s director while paddling a birch bark canoe about the origins and consequences of his ideas for how we live and die.Griefwalker video clip – click hereTickets may be purchased at the door $20 – doors open at 6:30pmLocation : First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, 1 Lawson Rd, Kensington, CaliforniaOnline registration and payment link:http://griefwalker.brownpapertickets.comRegistration Information:villagemaking@gmail.com

March 15th, 2014 MAKING A VILLAGE: Initiation, The Mid-Wife of Human Being – A daylong teaching by Stephen JenkinsonInitiation with the truth and mandatory grace of one’s mortality forefront, is the ages-old proving ground for person making. What would a culture look like if it didn’t have authentic initiation for its young people? Well, look around, friends. This is what it looks like. Initiation coalesces a person’s kinship with humanity, with creation, with the other world. Well understood, well done and well lived, initiation happens half a dozen times in someone’s life, ever deepening their humanity on the way towards elder-hood. This gathering for young and old teaches the demanding blessing and human making power of initiation, and will make a place for the untutored yearning for initiation that is still current and still possible among us. video clip – click here.Early-bird Fee: $120 includes lunch
($100 for folks 60+, those under 25 yrs. of age, and students when paid in full by 1/15/2014)
Fee after 1/15/2014: $150 includes lunch
($125 for folks 60+, those under 25 yrs. of age, and students)Location : First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, 1 Lawson Rd, Kensington, CaliforniaOnline registration and payment link:http://villagemaking.brownpapertickets.comRegistration Information:villagemaking@gmail.com